A heron where the burn meets the loch

It rained again most of the day, which was annoying as it was our last full day here in Argyll. Helena, Tanya and I all had a late lunch together at their mother's house where we had been hanging about all day. The broadband connection was virtually no-existent all day so we were left to our own devices.

We were about to go out to have tea with various family members who were visiting other family who lived further up the Argyll coast. But I spotted through the kitchen window that a heron was standing in the mouth of the burn which roars down the hillside and past the house. It is a favourite place of many different birds fro ducks to loons, seagulls, curlews, oystercatchers and also the very occasional otter, which I keep hoping to see.

I stepped outside the back door into the rain having set my camera up in advance and managed to grab this picture before the heron noticed me and flew off away along the shoreline it find another feeding spot. It was quite dark and my picture of it in flight were a bit blurred so I've chosen this image of it just as it noticed me in the adjacent garden. The other birds couldn't care less.